Improvement in machines for dressing worsted cord



I. E. PALMER. 1111101111111 FOR DRESSING W'OBSTED (101111.

No. 113,917. Patented Apr. 18 1871.

aura $121M intent (hfiitt,

Letters Patent No. 113,917, dated Aprlll 8, 1871.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR DRdSISINGWORSTED-CORD.

The Schpdnle referred to in them Letters Patent and making part of the III-B0- full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad I to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a machine constructed in accordance with my invention;

Figure 2, a plan of the same; and

Figure 3, a longitudinal sectional elevation through the lines: x'in fig. 2.

.Figure 4 is a side view, on a larger scale, of one of the guide-pulleys and emery or holding-wheels, used in the machine under a different arrangement or iu'n of the' cord over said devices to that-shown in fig.-1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My invention has for its object the dressing, or what has been called scraping, of worsted cord, as heretofore done in a rude mannerby hand devices, by causing adjacent lines of the cord as worked overor around and made to move in common with a hard roughened surface to bear down and hold upon the short projecting fibers of each other, and thus, by a process of pulling, as it were, from the points in the roughened sdrface as a closebea'ring or rest,- to client their detachment and so deprive the cord of furry matter and leave it smooth or clean.

The invention consists in a combination of guidepulleysand emery or other suitable hard roughened wheels for the purpose, the same constituting a machine for what has heretofore been efi'ected by hand, and accomplishing the work in a much more perfect and rapid manner.

. Said guide-pulleys and wheels may be variously arranged and be used in any desired number; also, the

cord be run over or around them either in an open or crossed manner.v

The'wheels I prefer to make of solid emery, but do not restrict myself to such, nor yet to an emery surface for the same; but consider emery as presenting the most suitable hard surface for the purpose, and consequently shall refer in the following description exclusively to emer'y-wheelsj Referring in the first instance to figs. 1,.2,'and 3 of the drawing- A represents the frame of the machine, and which may be of any desired construction.

B Bare let-off pulleys for the cord 1) to be dressed, and which ma be conducted from a'pile thereto through a guide, 0, and be passed under the lower pulley and over the upper one, the let-off actionlbeing rcgulatedfby a frictioubrake, d.

From the upper one-of these pulleys the cord?) is run successively over or around a series of freely-hung emery wheels, 0, and guide-pulleys D, the latter serv-- ing to direct. the cord, which is crossed, in two close lines or rows around the emery-wheels, and to hug the latter, with which the cord travels in common as it is drawn upon by take-up pulleys E E, or other- WISC- Thus passing around-and with the emery-wheels 0; the one lineof the cord has its'protrudjng' fibers, thesame is fed onto-eacnwheel, caught by or passed 'underthe adjacent line, which latter in its turn has its protruding fiber, as the same leaves the wheel, caught by the other row or line.

This hold of the fibers on the hard sharp points or surfaces of the wheels causes either one line or row of the cord to pull on and detach the protruding fibers from each other, and by a suitable disposition and number of wheels and guide-pulleys the whole sur-' face of the cord on its every side and at every point may in this way he effectually dressed.

Instead of passingthe cord in a crossed or close manner around the guide-pulleys and emery-wheels, it may have its'dcuble turn or run around the wheels effected in an open manner, as shown in fig. 4; butin such case itis desirable,'iu order to obtain an efi'ectiv'e lap of the cord around said wheels, to make the latter of a larger diameter than the guide-pulleys, and furthermore desirable, in order to secure the two rows or lines of cord running in close contiguity, to set the; axial lines of the pulleys and wheels more or loss oblique to each other.

Witnesses Faun. HAYNES, Fnnn. Tosca. 

